Cigar band



0. KAMPFE.

CIGAR BAND.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1920.

Patented Jan. 3, 1922.

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Application filed September To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'rro KAMrrn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bellmore, in the county of Nassau and State of New York,have invented an Improvement in Cigar Bands, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a cigar band. As is well known it is customaryfor some cigar manufacturers, particularly with certain brands ofcigars, to use thereon bands which contain a label or other deviceindicating either the place of manufacture or the brand of the cigar orboth. These cigar bands are merely placed around the cigar and the endsthereof connected by a suitable adhesive. Oftentimes, however, eitherbecause of the use of too much adhesive or be cause the bands are placedtoo tightly around the cigar, it is difficult, if not substantiallyimpossible, to remove the band from the cigar without injuring the cigarwrapper. In fact, it is quite a customary habit among smokers,irrespective of the manner inwhich the band may be placed on the cigar,to endeavor to slip the band from the cigar before attempting to smokethe same, and in doing so there is much liability of breaking thewrapper at the joints between the parts of the same by the edge of theband working under the edge of the wrapper. It is equally difficult inmany instances to tear the band from the cigar without injuring thewrapper, it being understood, of course, that when the wrapper ispunctured or injured in any similar manner that in most cases it is thenimpossible to smokethe cigar, and the object of my invention is toovercome this difficulty by providing a cigar band that may be readilyremoved from the cigar without the liability of injuring the wrapper. Incarrying out the invention the cigar band may be made in the usualmanner with exception that in predetermined portions it is provided witha slit or slits and a weakened line or lines of perforations extendingfrom the.

extremities of the said slit or slits to the edge of the band so thatbeginning at the slitted portion the band may be torn along the weakenedor perforated line so as to readily separate the parts of a band andthus remove the same from a cigar as will be hereinafter moreparticularly described.

, Specification of Letters Patent. I

Patented Jan. 3, 1922.

11, 1920. Serial No. 409,599. I c

F 1g- 4; shows a perspective view in which the parts of the band arecompletely separated, and

Fig. 5 is a plan showing another view of the invention after the partsof the band are entirely separated.

Referring particularly to the drawing, 10 indicates a cigar which isfitted with a band 11. This band, as is customary in cigar bands, ismade of paper and adapted to be placed around the cigar and securedthereto y having the ends thereof overlapped and attached to one anotherby any suitable adhesive. Also as is customary, the central portion ofthe band is provided with a circular portion 12 in which there is adesign 13 of any suitable nature indicating the brand of the cigar orthe place of its manufacture.

In carrying out the invention, in predetermined portions of the cigarband, I employ slits which are preferably circular in configuration. Asillustrated, these slits 14 and 15 are placed in the central circularportion of the band, although as will be understood they may be placedin any portion of the band even including the overlapping ends thereof,and as illustrated these slits have intervening a tongue 16 in order tomaintain the circular continuity of the band when in place on the cigar.Also as indicated, the opposite extremities of the slits 1 as will beunderstood, may be a weakened line in the band made by any desiredformation therein as for example by perforations or indentations.

As will now be apparent, after the band has been applied to the cigar inthe operation of which my improvements will not interfere in any manner,that when it is desired to remove theband the tongue 16 may be brokenand thereby the slitted portion raised and by'pulling the same the bandwill be torn along the lines 17 and 18 to cause the separated edges 19and 20 of the band, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4:, making a completeened lines extending from the ends of the slitand running at an angle tothe central longitudinal line of the hand to the edge thereof wherebythe tear in separating the parts of the band is made circumferentiallyof the cigar. y

2. cigar band having straight edge end portions and central oppositelydisposed circular portions, a slit substantially concentric to thecircularly disposed portions and extending transversely of thelongitudinal center of the band, and weakened lines ex tending from theends of the slit to the edge of the band at points approximately Wherethe circular edge portions join the straight edge portions. e i r VSigned by me this 24 day of August,

OTTO KAMPFE.

